Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton revived his attempt to shut down El Paso's Annunciation House, a Catholic nonprofit serving migrants, just a couple of months after his previous effort was blocked by a state judge.
The diocesan priest named in a controversy over damage to a Vatican II altar in Cleveland was on leave from the priesthood for a decade following allegations of sexual abuse, before being reinstated to ministry in 2012.
St. Thomas Aquinas Church in Brooklyn is located near an encampment with about 2,000 migrants. Amid the ongoing debate on immigration, the parish works to help the migrants and live out its social justice mission.
The seizure is part of a steady campaign by Russia to suppress the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, along with Catholicism in general and other faiths, in occupied areas of Ukraine.
The Mexican bishops' conference has questioned accusations of untoward behavior by retired Bishop Salvador Rangel Mendoza of Chilpancingo-Chilapa amid conflicting accounts of his disappearance and subsequent reappearance in a hospital bed — with the conference secretary general saying the situation had assumed political overtones.
As many as 1,000 people participated in prayer vigils and rallies in four Iowa cities May 1 in support of human dignity and to call for the repeal of a new state law on illegal migration that opponents say is punitive.
Messina College, a new two-year, associate's degree program of Boston College, is designed for first-generation, low-income students. The new college's dean says the effort "brings us back to our roots as an institution."
Asked about student protests on college campuses, Bishop John Stowe said he appreciated their 'interest in the situation and their solidarity with the Palestinians' but stressed the need to act peacefully.